Promotion of Continuing Medical Education for Physicians by Using the Mailing List / 医学教育

ABSTRACT

Because new media have come onstage in the information technology period, also self-learning methods have been diversified. Recently, small group discussion such as clinical conference using the mailing list is lively performed among the primary care physicians, and it is considered to be useful for continuing medical education. To promote the mailing list for continuing medical education, we present as follows; 1) present situation to show a good example of TFC-ML (total family care-mailing list), 2) usefulness to know new medical knowledge, new medical information and literatures etc., to discuss clinical cases. 3) issues a role of moderator, excess of information, correspondence with slander, 4) future to reevaluate usefulness for continuing medical education. We would like to expect effectiveness of mailing list for continuing medical education.